Boomer entrepreneur biographies

I’ve read enough boomer entrepreneur biographies now to notice they’re all roughly the same book with a different name on the cover.

• dad was in the army
• married mother during the war
• parents had three kids, two boys and a girl
• ‘modest’ upbringing
• ‘didn’t have much’ - few toys, maybe a TV
• both parents had a car and a larger-than-average house
• went to private school somehow (mother knew the headmaster)
• spent summers at the family beach house
• got into one of the best universities in the world, for free
• met their spouse there, married quickly
• graduated or dropped out
• had kids of their own
• started a business
• a wealthy mentor invested and advised
• there were some struggles, but the market was booming anyway
• parents’ connections helped too
• everything worked out
• became one of the richest people in the world

I could tell you whose biography this is, but you’d probably guess wrong.